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Post by Admin on Oct 2, 2013 12:45:31 GMT -8
I thought it might be cool to have a thread for each month where we could either list devotions/rituals we have planned, report on ones we've done previously, or announce a personal devotional goal or challenge. For example, I posted in the ancestor thread about what we do for Hallows / Day of the Dead and was so impressed with what others were doing to honor their ancestors. I want to broaden my own work with my ancestors, so this month I'm going to make a goal to set up a permanent ancestor shrine and make offerings there throughout October. (And I make a commitment to report on how well I did at the end of the month!) So, anyone else want to share their devotional plans/rituals/goals for October? |
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Post by Heliocoptero on Oct 2, 2013 14:47:26 GMT -8
One of my goals for this month is to start a yearly feast in honour of Silvanus on October 6. I will do a formal ceremony, collect His offerings in a bowl with dirt and then pour it in a nearby wood. I should also make offerings to trees and perhaps plant one (though I'm yet to find a suitable place). Additionally, in the past few years I've been honouring Khnum in late October, so I'll be setting up a shrine, decorate it and present offerings of food and incense; I'll also honour Him by making a clay ram and then leave it on a river bank so the waters will take it.
I also have an idea on the back of my head involving Ingui-Frey and the dead on October 21st, but... I'm still working on it, so it shouldn’t go forward this year.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2013 17:40:07 GMT -8
I haven't got any rituals specifically planned for October, save perhaps for something for the Feast of Sobek on the 14th. Most of October will be planning for November, as I want to do something for both Beltane and the Beautiful Feast of the Valley. I might need to shift Beltane, though, as it falls during the Beautiful Feast, and I'd rather they didn't intersect. I want to do a ritual for Vulcan for Beltane, asking Him to keep the bushfires at bay over the long, hot summer that's to come down here. I want to do devotions for the Beautiful Feast at least every day, even if it's just being in shrine. I might do some art, or acquire other offerings for Them.
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Post by roguebiologist on Oct 3, 2013 2:43:05 GMT -8
Most of what I'll be doing will be centering around Halloween and the Day of the Dead. Yeah, I know, that's rather at odds with the generally accepted Southern Hemisphere pagan calendar - the majority of Pagans here are celebrating Beltaine. On the other hand, it doesn't make sense. My state is notoriously drought and bushfire prone, and summer is the season where plants dry out and die. Our growing season is winter. More importantly, no one seems to have told the dead or the fae that the date has changed. >.> The air is charged, there's ghosts everywhere, and frankly it's pea soup. For the last few years I've honoured the dead passing through by leaving out food offerings and light. I also ward my house like crazy because the fae are also out on force. This year I'll be doing the same but later in the evening will be opening the house a little more and throwing a small party to honour the dead. Halloween isn't really a thing in Australia so it'll be rather more Pagan minded than not.
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Post by liadine on Oct 3, 2013 4:54:42 GMT -8
I've recently started doing twice-daily offerings/devotions, so by the end of October I'd like to have that hammered out into its final form (since right now it involves a lot of stammering, forgetting what I want to do next, and otherwise feeling awkward). I struggle a lot with routine, so hopefully doing it every day during October will make it stick more than it has before.
Other than that I've got Samhain/Halloween, but that's generally unrelated to my deities - it's mostly about magic/honoring the dead/personal stuff. (Very little of my wheel of the year celebrations are religious, which is part of why I want to create a separate calendar for religious festivals vs purely celebratory ones.)
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Post by moonwolf23 on Oct 3, 2013 7:23:41 GMT -8
One of my goals for this month is to start a yearly feast in honour of Silvanus on October 6. I will do a formal ceremony, collect His offerings in a bowl with dirt and then pour it in a nearby wood. I should also make offerings to trees and perhaps plant one (though I'm yet to find a suitable place). Additionally, in the past few years I've been honouring Khnum in late October, so I'll be setting up a shrine, decorate it and present offerings of food and incense; I'll also honour Him by making a clay ram and then leave it on a river bank so the waters will take it. I also have an idea on the back of my head involving Ingui-Frey and the dead on October 21st, but... I'm still working on it, so it shouldn’t go forward this year. Who is Silvanus? Ingui-Frey? Not to be an annoying Saggitarius, but if I ask and then someone new comes along to read, they will know. Heck even someone more experienced comes along and well get more info. Could you go into more depth on Ingui-Frey, I'm guessing a specific aspect of Frey? |
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Post by moonwolf23 on Oct 3, 2013 7:26:26 GMT -8
I want to do something for Samhain. I'd like it to involve a fire, but I doubt that will happen this year. I'm going to be working more with the small grove I found. Maybe doing some crafts to put up in the grove(I"m being pushed to do windchimes). Making plans for a dumb supper and researching mead stuff.
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Post by Monica on Oct 3, 2013 8:19:32 GMT -8
I have some devotional obligations to fulfill for the land spirits this month. Shortly after I moved here, I vowed to avoid messing with the wild areas of the property as much as possible to show respect to them and to avoid disturbing the wildlife. Last October, we had to have a tree on the edge of that area cut down because it was at risk of dropping huge limbs onto the road that runs by it. I made a promise to the spirits that I would leave wildlife friendly food offerings out periodically (for the spirits as well as the animals who lost their homes or were disrupted when the tree came down) and that within the year I would plant 3 trees as compensation. It's been almost a year and I decided over the summer to plant 3 evergreens because they offer year-round shelter to many critters. Autumn is a good time to plant pine trees so I'm off to the nursery this weekend to purchase them. I'm also going to continue this fall and winter to leave out suet cakes, honey, and grain as offerings.
I'm also prepping my smaller garden for planting fall flower bulbs whenever the weather starts to cool off. I've bought flowers for years to place on Astarte's shrine as offerings so I thought I'd try dedicating the little garden to Her this year and grow flowers for the shrine. |
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Post by Monica on Oct 3, 2013 8:22:57 GMT -8
Whoops, double post. Sorry about that! |
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Post by moonwolf23 on Oct 3, 2013 9:54:08 GMT -8
If you have roses, you may want to add them in there, and let them fruit. The hips give some vital food to the critters.
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Post by Monica on Oct 3, 2013 13:19:42 GMT -8
If you have roses, you may want to add them in there, and let them fruit. The hips give some vital food to the critters. I didn't know that, thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to do some research to see what kinds of rose bushes are native to this area and check the local nurseries in the spring.  |
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Post by Heliocoptero on Oct 4, 2013 4:06:27 GMT -8
Who is Silvanus? Ingui-Frey? Not to be an annoying Saggitarius, but if I ask and then someone new comes along to read, they will know. Heck even someone more experienced comes along and well get more info. Could you go into more depth on Ingui-Frey, I'm guessing a specific aspect of Frey? Silvanus is a Roman god of the woodland (see here, for instance). Frey is actually a title meaning "Lord", but Snorri at one point calls Him Yngvi-Freyr, which probably hints at the god's "actual" name or at least an alternative one, if not older. Hence, for instance, the Yngling dynasty in Sweden, which appears to have had a special link with Frey. |
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Post by pthelms on Oct 5, 2013 16:05:52 GMT -8
I have the Greater Aresia planned for 5 Pyanepsion, which falls on Thursday, 10 Oct. It's the biggest festival on my calendar, and I will be putting it on at the Hellenic Revival next November. If you want to check it out, just go to aspisofares.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/the-greater-aresia/. |
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Post by Gandillon on Oct 7, 2013 5:55:45 GMT -8
We're celebrating the Oskophoria this weekend, which I'm really excited for. It's mainly a family affair this year, with a few friends attending, but it's been one of our favorite festivals for the past couple of years.
Karva Chauth will be here soon, too - just a couple of weeks! It's one of my favorite festivals of the year, but I won't be able to fast this time because I'm pregnant.
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Post by liadine on Oct 8, 2013 4:23:15 GMT -8
New additions to my plans for October, dependent on the number of spoons in my cutlery cabinet:
- Make devotional Tumblrs, although that's also under 'stuff that's fun for me' rather than 'stuff I'm called to do'
- Finish making my prayer beads (finished for Brighid, Persephone, and Hekate; still have to make one for Himself)
- Memorize the prayers for each bead - I have all of Brighid's memorized except for her descent, but Persephone and Hekate are trickier
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